[TechGita]
II

Hardware

Semiconductors & Hardware

Silicon, chips, and the engines of computation

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// this chapter is currently an outline — verse titles below list the topics covered, full write-ups are in progress.
II.1

Silicon

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II.2

Doping

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II.3

The P-N Junction

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II.4

The MOSFET

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II.5

CMOS Logic

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II.6

Photolithography

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II.7

EUV Lithography

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II.8

Wafer Fabrication

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II.9

Chip Design

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II.10

VLSI

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II.11

The ASIC

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II.12

The FPGA

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II.13

The GPU

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II.14

The TPU

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II.15

SRAM

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II.16

DRAM

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II.17

NAND Flash

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II.18

The PCB

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II.19

Thermal Management

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II.20

Power Delivery

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II.21

Clock Distribution

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II.22

Chip Packaging

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II.23

3D IC Stacking

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II.24

Chiplets

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II.25

Heterogeneous Integration

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II.26

Process Nodes

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II.27

Quantum Tunnelling Limit

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II.28

Neuromorphic Chips

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II.29

Analog vs Digital

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II.30

Mixed-Signal ICs

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II.31

MEMS

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II.32

Photonic Chips

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II.33

Compound Semiconductors

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II.34

The Semiconductor Supply Chain

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II.35

RISC-V

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II.36

Arm Architecture

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II.37

x86 Architecture

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II.38

CPU Microarchitecture

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II.39

CPU vs GPU vs NPU

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